What other major democracy outside the US has first-past-the-post baked into the constitution? US nat'l elections are structural duopolies.https://twitter.com/alexburnsNYT/status/781502758239211520 …
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one thing I haven't been able to figure out is how regional third parties have success in UK and Canada despite FPTP :3
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wouldn't the argument be 'a Libertarian bench with multiple state- and national level pols would be able to supplant R's this year"
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I think consideration always needs to be given to open primaries: which most multi-party democracies do not have.
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state infrastructure would allow them to do better than the nothing they will get again this election
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(To be clear: the way to challenge entrenched politics in the US *is* combination of local efforts & primaries. But duopoly is structural).
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And not having FPTP.
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